[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: epl-v10 Question

[Bill Winspur <bwinspur@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Merks wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Dump it in a zip file and have a link for it only any publicly 
> accessible website.  Or open a bugzilla, and dump it there; even if it's 
> closed or rejected, it will still be recorded...
>
>
> Bill Winspur wrote:
> > Ed Merks wrote:
> > > Bill,
> > >
> > > Ask your lawyer if you want legal advice. :-P
> > >
> > > My free non-legal advice is that as long as you make the source code 
> > > of your modified variant publicly available, you're doing exactly 
> > > what's required.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bill Winspur wrote:
> > > > I would like to create a (probably renamed) variant of Class 
> > > > XMLMemento (and inteface IMemento) that is not dependent on package 
> > > > org.eclipse.ui.internal, and would package the modified class as a 
> > > > jar to be used:
> > > >
> > > > 1. In junit test cases in launched from eclipse, but not running in the
> > > > plugin environment.
> > > >
> > > > 2. In external tools launched from eclipse.
> > > >
> > > > 3. In java applications completely separate from eclipse.
> > > >
> > > > Can I acomplish this without violating the the terms of epl-v10, 
> > > > under which XMLMemento is currently distributed?
> > > >
> > > > Bill Winspur
> > Thanks Ed,
> > However, being a recluse by nature, I have never made code publicly 
> > available. In all seriousness, could you suggest a low-cost way that I 
> > could do that?
> > Bill
Will do, one of those. Thanks, Bill.